I use to have some hope that biodiesel from algae might be a serious
fuel source some day, but after much exploration and doing the math,
it seems to me to be hardly worth the effort. The following is the
new update to my webpage on the biofuel hoax at:

http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html

"The prospect of growing algae to make biodiesel has more positive
potential than making ethanol from switchgrass, but you are still
stuck with the fact that algae need solar energy to turn carbon
dioxide...

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-28-200...=

NRDC: 32 Coal-Fired Power Plants in 13 States Now Up in the Air After
Major Court Ruling on Mercury

MI, WY, IL, NV, OH, PA, TX, IA, KY, LA, GA, NM and NC Are States With
Largest Number of At-Risk Dirty Power Plants; At Stake: Health of Hundreds
of Thousands of U.S. Children.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The prospects for 32
coal-fired power plants in 13 states have been shaken up in the wake of a
February 8, 2008 federal appeals court ruling that requires each new
coal-fired power plant in the U.S. to adopt stringent toxic air pollution
control measures meeting the most rigorous standards under the Clean Air
Act, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRD).

The states identified with the most coal-fired power plants now up in
the air are: Michigan (four), Wyoming (four), Illinois (three), Nevada
(three), Ohio (three), Pennsylvania (three), Texas (three), Iowa (two),
Kentucky (two), Louisiana (two), Georgia (one), New Mexico (one) and North
Carolina (one).

The ruling will impact various aspects of three dozen or more
coal-fired power plants, including some now already under construction.

There's an interesting article here on forecasting electricity demand
in the UK. Particularly interesting is the demand graph:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7268832.stm

Some conclusions:
- If Britain's 30 million cars were replaced by Electric Vehicles
today, there is today enough spare capacity to charge all of them, as
long as the timing of the charging can be controlled...

The provision of electrical power nationwide has become the chosen
battleground for environmental groups laboring night and day to insure
there will not be enough of it to meet our needs. The U.S. Department
of Energy predicts that overall energy demand will grow by 45%% between
now and 2030.

The effort to insure Americans will not have enough electricity is
deadly serious. Take, for example, the exultant news release (Jan 17)
from the Rainforest Action Network, "Proposed Coal Plants Losing
Steam" celebrating "59 coal plants cancelled or shelved in 2007."
Since coal-fired utilities provide over 50 percent of the electricity
generated in America, the need for additional plants would seem
obvious. A May 2007 Business Week article about coal noted that,
"Today, making electricity from coal can cost half as much as using
cleaner-burning natural gas." Half as much at the plant translates to
half as much in the monthly energy bill to homeowners and others.

Full article available at http://www.energetika.co.yu/Analyses/America-is-Running-Out-of-Electricity.html

Please send you thoughts!

Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with
those who might be interested. The paper submission deadline has
been extended until March 10, 2008.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'08
-----------------------------

Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008

Call For Papers

WORLDCOMP'08
The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
(composed of 25 Joint Conferences)

In a message dated 12/17/98 9:17:13 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tad70@home.com writes:

At 10:53 PM 12/17/98 EST, you wrote:

tad70@home.

Loss of wind causes Texas power grid emergency

Learn to Trade with a FREE Guide.HOUSTON (Reuters) - A drop in wind
generation late on Tuesday, coupled with colder weather, triggered an
electric emergency that caused the Texas grid operator to cut service
to some large customers, the grid agency said on Wednesday.

Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said a decline in wind
energy production in west Texas occurred at the same time evening
electric demand was building as colder temperatures moved into the
state.

The grid operator went directly to the second stage of an emergency
plan at 6:41 PM CST (0041 GMT), ERCOT said in a statement.

System operators curtailed power to interruptible customers to shave
1,100 megawatts of demand within 10 minutes, ERCOT said. Interruptible
customers are generally large industrial customers who are paid to
reduce power use when emergencies occur.

No other customers lost power during the emergency, ERCOT said.
Interruptible customers were restored in about 90 minutes and the
emergency was over in three hours.

Our scientists are so succesful in telling us that perpetual motion
generators cannot be build, that we are scared to even try to build
one. So it took a UFOnaut to tell us how to build a simplest
mechanical perpetual motion generator. This alien-technology generator
is described (in the Polish language) at the thread
http://groups.google.com/group/pl.sci.fizyka/browse_thread/thread/6f0835cb1d0ac861/5e0d7235dc43c262...#5e0d7235dc43c262
.

The principle of this generator is based on the fact that the
"Coriolis effect" keeps a flywheel motionless in relation to the solar
system, if the axis of rotation of this flywheel is parallel to the
axis of the Earth's rotation. Thus such a flywheel rotates in
relationship to the surface of the Earth once per day. If it is
connected with an electricity generator via a gearbox, it also is able
to generate electrical energy, as its torgue is equal to the inertia
moment of the flywheel minus the friction on the flywheel's bearings.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/disintegrating_turbine/

YouTubers have been enjoying some spectacular footage of the
disintegration of a Danish wind turbine which ended up a bit broken
after its brakes failed.

The So Called "Impossible" Becomes Realitty

" After all, we really don't need to be "attached" to Oil, Nuclear and other
Lobbies to sufice the ammount of Electric Power needed in Modern Society
..."

Greetings for all the members of this Discussion Group

Only recently I realized the existence of this Community.

I'm writting, to give you all, the news about a machine that is now
developped and is in Final Apreciation for World Patent.

The principle of this machine that transforms perpetual linear motion in
circular motion, is one fluid, that may be as simple as ... Water.

It's principles are ... Density, Impulsion and ... Gravity... !!

I know it is hard for the so called Establishment what is said before, but
what is a fact is that the machine does not obbey to the main principles of
Termodynamics as we know it ...

The process is auto-continuous, feeds itself and by a simple principle of
Crankshaft - Lever, generates torque enough to move a mechanical electrical
generator. Of course, it depends on the size of the machine we are intended
to build.